Centerville Daily
Iowegian – 15 October 1985
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Edgar W. Stone
Edgar Stone was born October 5, 1910 at
Achillis, Kansas, the son of Clara Burns and Samuel Stone. He passed away October 8, 1985 at the Wayne
County Hospital in Corydon at the age of 75 years and 4 days.
As a very small boy the family moved to
Summer, Nebraska where they lived for a year before buying at Amherst, Nebraska
where he received his schooling and was living when he married Lora Carter at
Grand Island, Nebraska. They spent a few
years there farming during the depression.
In 1940 he rented his uncle Charley Burns farm at Jerome, Iowa and
worked at the mine. In 1958 they bought their present farm and have resided
there since.
Preceding him were his parents, a baby
sister, and three brothers, Carl, Raymond, and Lee.
Edgar leaves his wife Lora, son Harold and
wife Sharon, three grandchildren; Wanita and Michael Gibbs of Promise City,
Iowa; Annette of Canton, Missouri; and Peter stationed at Ft. Jackson, South
Carolina and one great-granddaughter Trenna.
Also two brothers Roy of Moulton, Iowa and Ernest of Elm Creek,
Nebraska, two sisters Opal Ludwig of Browning, Missouri and Margaret Epp of
Kearney, Nebraska and a host of nieces and nephews and other relatives and
friends.
Services were held on Saturday, October 12,
1985, at 1:30 P.M. from the Randolph Funeral Home in Seymour with Cortiss Fry,
officiating. Organ selections “The Old
Rugged Cross” and “What a Friend We Have In Jesus” were played. The pallbearers were: Michael Gibbs, Ronnie
Ludwig, Larry Ludwig, Dean Ludwig, Jerry Ludwig and Sam Stone.
Interment was in the Jerome Cemetery at
Jerome, Iowa.
There was a memorial to either the Wayne
County Hospital or the Wayne County Cancer Society.
Gravestone of Edgar and Lora Stone
in the Jerome Cemetery
Row 3, Block 18, Lot 8
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